From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: completion discrepancy between default completion and helm/ivy completions Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2016 15:35:41 -0500 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1478810276 10995 195.159.176.226 (10 Nov 2016 20:37:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2016 20:37:56 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 10 21:37:52 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1c4w61-0006P5-Ho for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 Nov 2016 21:37:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49276 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c4w64-0007jP-NQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 Nov 2016 15:37:20 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45419) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c4w5W-0007jJ-2c for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Nov 2016 15:36:46 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c4w5R-0001ac-45 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Nov 2016 15:36:46 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=56667 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c4w5Q-0001aI-U1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Nov 2016 15:36:41 -0500 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1c4w4t-0007Pj-IN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Nov 2016 21:36:07 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 15 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:D+pBYVH0Q9Y21L2ZriAs8hI/rjU= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:209333 Archived-At: > (let ((completion (try-completion beforepoint table pred))) > (if (not (stringp completion)) > completion This case is for when `completion` is t (when means that `beforepoint` is a valid candidate and there is no further completion possible). > I would like to fix org-contacts so that it works well all the time. > Should it directly return a cons of the string and its length? No, returning such a cons would be a bug and I'm pretty sure it would break the default completion code at least. Stefan